Eilat Mazar (“Did I Find King David’s Palace?”) teaches at Hebrew University’s Institute of Archaeology. In addition to her work in the City of David, Mazar digs at the Phoenician site of Achziv. She has been publishing the final report of the excavations south of the Temple Mount that were led by her grandfather, Benjamin Mazar.
Assaf Yasur-Landau (“Your Career Is in Ruins”) is a lecturer in the department of archaeology at Tel Aviv University and co-director of the Tel Kabri excavations. He has also excavated at Ashkelon, Modiin and Megiddo. Co-author Eric H. Cline is chair of the department of classical and Semitic languages and literature at George Washington University. He is currently co-director of the excavations at Kabri and Megiddo and has dug in Israel, Greece, Jordan and Egypt.
Jodi Magness (“What Did Jesus’ Tomb Look Like?”) the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has participated in 20 excavations in Israel and Greece, including the Roman-era siege works at Masada; since 2003 she has co-directed the excavation of the Roman fort at Yotvata. Her book The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls won the 2003 Biblical Archaeology Society award for the best popular book on archaeology.
Adrian J. Boas (“The Rugged Beauty of Crusader Castles””) is a senior lecturer at Haifa University’s departments of archaeology and land of Israel studies, where he teaches Crusader-period archaeology and history. He is the author of Crusader Archaeology: The Material Culture of the Latin East (Routledge, 1999) and Jerusalem in the Time of the Crusades (Routledge, 2001); a third book—Archaeology of the Military Orders—is due out in March. Boas has directed excavations at Crusader sites in Acre, Jerusalem, the castles of Vadum Jacob, Beth-Shean and elsewhere.
Eilat Mazar (“Did I Find King David’s Palace?”) teaches at Hebrew University’s Institute of Archaeology. In addition to her work in the City of David, Mazar digs at the Phoenician site of Achziv. She has been publishing the final report of the excavations south of the Temple Mount that were led by her grandfather, Benjamin Mazar.
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